About Us

Our mission is to support the affordable housing sector to achieve its goals and deliver the high quality homes and services that residents deserve.

For over 30 years, ARK has been driven by the desire to see organisations performing and operating at their best. Why? Because that leads to better homes, communities and ultimately, better lives. We are a leading management and technical consultancy working throughout the UK with particular expertise in working with housing associations, local authorities, government bodies and the charitable sector.

We are known for our trustworthy and collaborative approach to helping our clients with challenges and opportunities.

Our team, which includes more than 80 dedicated experts, has significant experience of working at senior levels in the housing sector in many different roles, so we can support you both strategically and operationally.

We offer a comprehensive range of project, interim and research services to support every part of your organisation. Whether it’s asset management or development and regeneration, recruiting people, managing change or organisational growth, we can help you make the most of your resources.

Our Values

Our values reflect our core beliefs. They are intrinsic to everything we do as an organisation.

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Excellence

We provide a first class service that goes beyond our clients’ expectations. We are scrupulous, efficient and diligent in all that we undertake. We have a track record for delivering high quality projects which add value.

Knowledge

We are sector leaders. Our expert team is highly skilled, knowledgeable, practical and experienced across a wide range of services. We continuously adapt, innovate, learn and develop in order to meet the ever changing needs of our sector.

Integrity

We are smart partners and critical friends because people trust us and we deliver value for money. We are honest, transparent and reliable in our advice. We are friendly and approachable, which helps us to build long lasting relationships.

Commitment

We are committed to working in the social housing sector because we want to make a positive difference to residents and communities. We care about the people we work with and the environments we work in – we will be supportive, treating them with respect and empathy.

As a consortium of local government and housing partners, we appointed ARK based on their excellent track record of working with such complexity. We have not been disappointed.

Mark Leeman
Strategy Specialist, Somerset West and Taunton Council

CHIC supported at all points throughout the process and made life much easier, especially helping to ease the administration and technical burdens. Ultimately, we have awarded and started trading with many local and regional contractors delivering vital works to our customers and within our communities.

Richard Orders
Senior Category Manager, Platform Housing

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Meet our people

Our friendly team look forward to meeting you and finding out how they can help.

Meet all our people

Alex Dumitrache

CHIC Data Analyst

Giles Newman

CHIC Head of Merchant Services

Zainib Akhtar

Zainib Akhtar

Junior Consultant

Luke Hurd

Luke Hurd

Director and Chief Operating Officer at CHIC

Tim West

Director